Income/Status:

For Center Based Program, families must also have Full-Day DSHS Working Connections Child Care Subsidy

Location:

For the Home Based Program, the following locations are served:

Battle Ground

Hockinson

Kalama

La Center

Ridgefield

Vancouver

For the Center Based Program, the program is offered at the following child care locations:

Central Park Early Learning

Children’s Village – Burton

Children’s Village – Salmon Creek

Hough Early Learning

Kalama Early Learning

Park Crest Early Learning

South Ridge (Ridgefield)

Priority is given to low-income families, homeless families, foster children and children a with a documented disability.

Please contact us at 360-952-3466 to determine if your family is income eligible. (Bilingual Spanish-speaking staff available).

Program Details

About the Early Head Start Program

The ESD 112 Early Head Start program helps promote school readiness by enhancing children’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development, and supporting parents and families in this effort.

Families enrolled in Early Head Start will participate in:

Child care and home visiting options for prenatal women and children aged birth to 3 years

Children are provided with educational, health and nutritional services

Assist children and families with community resources

Opportunities for parent involvement and leadership opportunities

Early Head Start provides comprehensive child and family development services for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers ages birth to three years.

Qualifying families may enroll in our Home Based program or our Center Based program. For more information on our Early Head Start programs, please contact us at 360-952-3466 or send us an email.

Early Head Start is a federally funded program through the Office of Head Start.

Federal Reports & Documents

Home Based Program

Early Head Start Home Based Program

Early Head Start provides free comprehensive child development and family support services for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers ages birth to three. Families enrolled in the program will participate in weekly home visits and biweekly parent-child playgroups.

What’s Included

The Early Head Start program is designed to help your child’s development and promote school readiness.

Includes year-round, weekly 1 ½ hour home visits.

Parent/Child Playgroups two times per month.

We work with you on your child’s learning by collecting information from you about your child, assessing their on-going development, and coming up with child goals together.

We conduct initial screening for health, hearing, vision, and development and assist with referrals or follow-up as needed.

We assist parents with developing personal or family-level goals and provide community resources and referrals as needed.

We offer parent education & leadership opportunities.

Enroll Today!

If you would like to learn more about enrolling in Early Head Start, please call:

Local: 360-952-3466Toll-free: 1-877-414-0071

Locations Served

Battle Ground

Hockinson

La Center

Ridgefield

Vancouver

Child Care Program

Child Care Program

Early Head Start provides comprehensive child development and family support services for families with infants and toddlers ages birth to three. Families enrolled in the program will receive services at one of our Early Care Center locations.

Note: DSHS Working Connections Child Care Subsidy is required for enrollment. All families are responsible for monthly DSHS Co-Payment.

What’s Included

The Early Head Start program is designed to help your child’s development and promote school readiness.

Is a Full-day, Full-year, licensed child care setting.

We work with you on your child’s learning by collecting information from you about your child, assessing their ongoing development, and coming up with child goals together.

We conduct initial screenings for health, hearing, vision, & development and assist with referrals or follow-up as needed.

Center Locations

Policy Council

Parent Policy Council

Policy Council is a leadership opportunity for parent volunteers in Early Head Start (EHS) and the Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP) to have a voice in major program planning, policy and decision-making. Through Policy Council they are able to advocate for the best interest of their child and family while gaining leadership skills.

In addition to their regular meetings, once a year EHS and ECEAP staff bring the Policy Council parents and the ESD 112 Board of Directors together at the ESD for a dinner and training session. Parents are given the opportunity to share their families’ stories and experiences in the programs with the Board. Members of both groups participate in training related to roles and responsibilities as well as how the two governing bodies, along with management staff, engage in a shared decision-making process.

Policy Council Meetings & Minutes

Meetings are held the 3rd Thursday of every month from 5:30pm – 7pm at the following locations:

Hough Early Learning Center

1801 Esther Street
Vancouver, WA 98660

White Salmon Early Learning Center

520 NW Loop Road
White Salmon, WA 98672

Ocean Beach Early Learning Center

305 5th Street SE
Long Beach, WA

*Dinner and child care is provided.

Meeting minutes are available upon request. Please contact ESD 112 at 360-952-3466.

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In 1989, Clark County's business, education and civic leaders joined Educational Service District 112 to take an extraordinary step: they launched the first of what has now become the largest community-run child care system in the United States. Today, this effort is recognized as one of the "best and brightest" examples of local, state and federal government programs addressing one of today's toughest issues: child care.The Consortium operates 25 centers in Clark County serving 1,600 children and 2,800 parents utilizing more than 200 employees. SWCCC is a non-profit community based child care program serving families with children ages 6 weeks to 12 years.

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